Will this be enough?

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My soon to be computer:
athlon xp2100+ tbred
Pro Source Full Tower case Model 606LUNA
PC Chips Motherboard for AMD Processors, Model M811LU
Glacialtech IGLOO 2450 PRO (AMD/INTEL) CPU Cooler. For Athlon XP 3200+, 1.4GHz. All duron; P III 1.4GHz; Celeron 1.4GHz.
nVidia g4000 32mb video card
samsung pc2100 128mb ddram
8mb hard drive(forgot vendor)

i found 80mm case fans on newegg selling for $2, and my case supports up to 4 fans, so would getting 4 of those fans help with the cooling?
Will all of the above be enough for my computer?

Please bear in mind that i am under an extremely tight budget. Thanks for your time.

 

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8mb HD?

 

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yea its an old one i have. a new one is just too costly for me.

 

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8 megs CACHE, Jognt.

 

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/me hides in a corner, srry...

 

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that's not a bad set-up. Don't forget thermal paste and a sound card. I would say try to get at least 256 ram though.

 

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Cyrix_2k said:

8 megs CACHE, Jognt.

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umm no i think he meant 8Gb... i don't think that old of an hdd will have 8mg cache.

yes i think some more ram will do you alot of good

 

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eheheh

yes it is an 8gb hard drive. Did i saw 8mb? I meant gb. Anyways yeah i dont think ill need that much ram. I'm gonna use linux. Gentoo to be exact. My only question is if anyone knows where i can get a hard drive cheap. Thats the only thing stopping me from building an entire computer. Just so you know, as of now, the total is $150 for everything. Unfortunately, i only have $55 >_<
however, i am hoping i can make a bit of money by selling some video games. Selling about 3 of them would give me about $90. 90+45 = almost enough money. I'll borrow a couple dollars from my sister and i'll be able to build a computer! Oh man am i psyched. I also have another question: how much can i OC my processor before it fries with the cooling i have specified?

 

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Where are you getting this stuff from?

1) Go for an XP 1800/1700. $50 ish but OCs just as well.

2) Get a decent motherboard, with good BIOS options. for cheapness I think an Asus A7V8X without anything like SATA/RAID or whatever will do.

3) HDs aren't cheap. You could try to get one second-hand.
4) Cooler? I dunno, you can get a cheapo Akasa one for $10

$150 is pushing it lots. I don't think you can do an AMD (modern) system for that.

 

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Whatever your going to be building, im going to wish you good luck

 

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Yeah you can get a $49 1700 that will usually clock to 2.2ghz...

http://www.gameve.com/store/gameve_viewitem.asp?idproduct=267

 

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id recomend a better mobo, but it sounds good, dont forget the cables and stuffs

 

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hmm if i buy it from gameve they give free sh and its a guarenteed tbred b
that'll shave of a good $20
only thing is, now i need a good mobo under $60
the one im looking at is the Biostar M7VIG PRO mobo
will it be able to overclock well?

 

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lol nono thats to funny,,, 8mb hard drive... hehhe

 

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Dicth the PCCHIPS and you have something a LOT better. If you don't ditch it, heres a forum for PCCHIP problems and fixes/workarounds
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142-bin/cgi-bin/ibrd/ikonboard.cgi

When I moved out I picked a cheap prebuilt computer since I was just getting by using my parents computer before. Soon did I learn how much of a pain the M810LMR was, such as the AGP 2.0 that only works with a small % of cards, that you then need to dumb down to 1X mode using powerstrip(despite it being called a AGP4X board). If the computers purpose will be web surfing and email, the PCCHIPS board should be fine(thats what mine is now doing after being sold/given to gf's mom).

Another reason I won't trust anything from PCCHIPS
PC Chips fake cache 486
http://www.redhill.net.au/b-bad.html

If you plan on doing anything more than that, save yourself the grief and buy ANYTHING else(I recomend any Nforce2 board).

 

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yeah im not using that one anymore.
i decided to use the MSI K7N2 Delta-L nforce2mobo. Only $56
im stuck between two things. Should i buy the $50 amd 1700+ chip and OC to 2.3 ghz? Or should i buy the $60 2100+ chip and OC to however high it goes? Please help.

 

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anyone?

 

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please?